Clothes-line holding and operating device



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. J. J. KINMAN. v GLOTHES LINE HOLDING AND OPERATING DEVICE.

No. 492,628. Patented'Feb. 28, 1893.

INVENTOI? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES JOSEPH KIN MAN, OF PET'ERSBURG, INDIANA.

CLOTHES-LINE HOLDING AND OPERATING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 492,628, dated February 28, 1893.

Application filed July 26, 1892. Serial No. 441,296. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES JOSEPH KINMAN, of Petersburg, in the county of Pike and State of Indiana, have invented a .new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Line Holding and Operating Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices for hanging out and taking in clothes on or otf from a line, and it consists in certain novel combinations of devices for operation in concert with an endless clothes line, substantially as hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims, whereby every facility is afforded for placing the clothes on an outdoor line and taking them 0E there from by the washerwoman or other person from a fixed place or spot which may be under shelter or'in-doors, without necessitating her going out in the mud, rain or snow, also whereby every facility is afforded for changing the direction or course of the clothes line, to run either straight or angularly, to adapt itto accommodate agreater or less number of clothes and to suit either large or contracted yard rooms or'spaces, and whereby the clothes line after the clothes have been removed from it may be reeled up or takenin out of the weather from the same standpoint or place as was used in hanging out and taking in the clothes.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which my invention is shown in perspective in its operative position.

A, and B, are two terminal posts which may be arranged at any required distance apart, according to the yard space they are in or other circumstances, and O is a central post. These several posts may be fitted or held at their bottom ends in suitable holes or sockets made in planks or sills or in the ground provided for the purpose, and these holes or sockets may be numerous and varied in position to change the course of the clothes line as required, and to adapt the posts to different lengths of clothes lines. The one terminal post A is supposed to be at or near the place occupied by the washerwoman when hanging out or taking in the clothes. Said post is fitted with a large vertical grooved pulley D having an attached drum 1) and operated or I revolved by a crank c. The drum b has a hook d on it, the use of which will be hereinafter described. The other terminal post 13 is fitted with a likelarge vertical grooved pulley D and around these two pulleys D D the endless clothes line E is passed.

0 is the intermediate post provided with a horizontal pulley e on its upper end, around small grooved roller h on its upper end adapted to run upon the upper length of the clothesline. Only the lower length of the line is used to hang theclothes on.

To hang the clothes on the lower length of the endless line E, beginning at the end next to the terminal post A, the crank c is intermittently revolved to set in motion the endof the garments or clothes being placed successively, from a fixed standpoint of operation, on the lower half or length of the line. This is done until the garments have been placed on the first half of the length of the lower half of the line, when the hook and roller connection G is applied to the line E, and the operation of hanging the clothes on the line is continued as before until the whole of the lower half of the line has the clothes placed upon it. The connection G will then be in the center of the length of the line and serve to support the weight of the clothes and keep them at a proper distance from the ground.

less line E in the required direction, to admit When required to take in the clothes, the 9 crank c is suitably turned again as each gar too from exposure to the Weather, after the clothes have been removed, it may be hitched on to the hook at and be reeled up on the drum 1) by suitably turning the crank c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with the terminal posts, of the pulleys mounted thereon, the inner or operating pulley having an attached or connected drum provided with a hook or fastening to engage the line when it is to be Wound on the drum, substantially as set forth.

2. In clothes-line holding and operating devices of the character described, the combination of the terminal post A, the operating JAMES JOSEPH KINMAN.

Witnesses:

J. W. BERGEN, W. A. OLIPHANT. 

